The number of COVID-19 inpatients at Elkhart County hospitals keeps climbing. As of Monday, there were 52 patients at Elkhart General and 26 at Goshen Hospital, almost four times as many as two months ago.
Elkhart General’s 52 COVID-19 patients is the most yet recorded, according to Dr. Michelle Bache, vice president of medical affairs at Elkhart General. Because hospitalizations tend to lag compared with cases – and cases keep increasing – there is reason to believe the number of COVID-19 patients will keep growing.
“Every day, we’re just setting a new record,” Bache said.
As the hospital’s normal capacity is 144 beds, the 52 coronavirus patients take up more than a third of that capacity.
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